Improvement in thimble-skeins for wagons



H. H. RiCHARDS,

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN THlMBLE-SKEINS FOR WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,391, dated August22, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HEZEKIAH H. RICHARDS, of Fond du Lac, in the countyof Fond du Lac and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Thimble-Skeins with attachment admitting a brace; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification,and to the letters and fi gures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a side elevation and partial section of myinvention. Fig. 2 is an end view of an axle embodying my improvement.

This invention has relation to an improvement in means for attaching thebrace which extends from side to side under the axle to the axleskeins;and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the ear onthe under side of the skein.

Referring to the drawing, A designates the skein, made long andextending some distance beyond the shoulder B, against which the hubbears. 0 represents a downwardly-projecting lug on the under side of theskein, to which the end of the brace is attached by passing it throughThe construction of the lug O is designed to secure great strength, inorder to withstand successfully the strain on the brace. It may bedescribed as follows: The end of the skein in rear of the placed not atthe end of the skein but some distance therefrom, just behind theshoulder B, so that the strain upon the lug will be more equallydistributed over the skein.

I am aware that lugs have heretofore been formed on the under side ofaxle-skeins; hence I do not claim such broadly; but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The axle-skein herein described, provided with an extension in the rearof the shoulder B, whose wall extends downward to form thebracingfianges D D, between which and at or about the shoulder B thedownwardly and outwardlyinclined lug O is formed, substantially asspecified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses. A

HEZEKIAH H. RICHARDS.

Witnesses H. BENSON, JOHN NIoHoLs.

